Paolo Veronese

The Feast in the House of Levi

US$ 549.00

Christ sits at the centre of a banquet so lavish that the Inquisition demanded to know why a sacred supper contained dwarfs, dogs, German soldiers and a man picking his teeth. Veronese refused to repaint a single figure and renamed the picture instead, turning a trial into one of art history’s great acts of defiance. Three vast Palladian arches open onto a pale sky above the crowd.

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Paolo Veronese (1528-1588) was, with Titian and Tintoretto, one of the three painters who defined Venetian art in the sixteenth century. He specialised in vast, crowded, sumptuously coloured feast scenes for monastery refectories, filling them with silk, architecture and incidental life. Summoned before the Inquisition over one such painting, he refused to repaint it and simply changed its title.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 54 × 23 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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